What industry members are involved in Media Sandbox?

A panel of leading industry partners will actively support Media Sandbox 2009. The advisers will attend and contribute to salon and showcase events; and take a mentoring role in the development of ideas, talent and potential routes to market.

The panel includes:

Nicole Yershon, Ogilvy
Nicole started her career in advertising 23 years ago. But since Ogilvy London's Chairman 8 years ago gave her the brief to 'bring Ogilvy into the 21st century' her focus has shifted from analogue to digital, implementing Finance, Workflow and Digital Asset Management systems. She built up Ogilvy's digital hub called Domain, covering all broadcast and video editing, on and off line.

Today she champions new media across all platforms (iptv, social networking, mobile, search, gaming, digital out of home etc), bringing innovative technologies and solution to the attention of colleagues and clients across all disciplines which resulted in campaigns such as flooding Second Life, life web casting with pop group 'Girls Aloud', digital escalator panels for IBM to name but a few.

Recently Nicole and her team have launched the Ogilvy Digital Innovations Lab.
www.ogilvy.co.uk/ogilvy-interactive/

Dan Efergan, Aardman Animations
Dan Efergan is Creative Director of Online at Aardman Animations - where he gets to spend a lot of time doing fun things like making games, creating online communities, and exhibition interfaces.

Previously he kept himself entertained as MD of Subsub Skills and Production, creative and technical lead on Light Up Bristol, a lecturer of programming and cofounder of the Submerge New Media Festival, which gave him a warm and fuzzy feeling by bringing together creative people and seeing what happened.

He’s particularly interested in creative programming, the future of human/digital interaction and it's effect on society. He likes philosophy, and if he wasn't so busy would love to work out the meaning of life.
http://www.aardman.com

Tim Scott, DCMS
Tim Scott is the Project Manager responsible for Creative Education, Turning Talent into Jobs and Supporting Research and Innovation on the Department for Culture Media and Sport's Creative Economy Programme (CEP). The CEP is responsible for the delivery of Creative Britain - New Talents for a New Economy, a strategy for the Creative Economy in the UK published in Feb '08.  It contains 26 commitments intended to move the creative industries from the margins to the mainstream of the economy.

Tim's career began in politics as a researcher for the Shadow Cabinet, moving to the Training and Development Agency for Schools working on the Wider Schools Workforce before joining the DCMS in 2007.
www.culture.gov.uk/

Gavin Henderson, RDF
Gavin Henderson is Head of Programmes for Presentable TV in Cardiff, part of the RDF Media Group. RDF Television produces some of the country’s best known series including The Secret Millionaire, Shipwrecked, Don’t Forget the Lyrics, Dickinson’s Real Deal and Scrapheap Challenge. In 2007, RDF Digital was set up to help "future proof" the company against changes in the way content is funded and distributed and to realise revenues from RDF content on the web.

Before joining Presentable, Gavin was Head of Programmes at Endemol West. His production credits include Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, The Big Breakfast, Artschool, Big Brother, The Games and the multi-platform BBC project ‘Upstaged’.
www.presentable.co.uk/

Richard Hull, HP Labs
Richard Hull is a senior researcher in the Pervasive Media Project in Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol. Since joining HPLabs in 1985, Richard has worked, managed and published in a broad range of research areas including knowledge-based management systems, manufacturing planning, handwriting interfaces, situated computing, and appliance communications. His current research interests are in the use of pervasive mobile computing in experiential applications. He was the technical lead in the Mobile Bristol collaborative project and HPLab's subsequent work on mscape, a freely available framework for creating, sharing and experiencing location-based media (www.mscapers.com).

Richard gained a BSc in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Surrey in 1979 and a DPhil in Computer Science from the University of Sussex in 1984.
www.hpl.hp.com/

James Touzel, Partner, TLT LLP
James is head of the Technology & Media Group at UK law firm TLT.  He has been with TLT for over 14 years, throughout that time working with established and early-stage technology and media organisations.

He is known for his work with digital media and mobile telecoms businesses, covering social networking, location based services and new media collaborations, where he advises on the contractual, intellectual property and privacy issues. He also deals with technology development and licensing arrangements, IT procurements and managed service solutions.

James is actively involved in the development of early-stage media businesses and the related support networks. He is a trustee of Watershed Arts Trust Limited and non-executive chair of iShed CIC, who have a mission to pioneer innovation and new technologies in the creative industries. He is also a member of Science City Bristol.
www.tltsolicitors.com/sectors/technology-and-media